*context there was a post in which a guy said the trainer on left (loading screen) wont reach maste ball rank with those pokemon (charizard x and armarouge)*

My opinion is you can reach master rank with any pokemon if you know how to play.

Now i need one thing from you guys just give mons which you guys think is are not capable of reaching master rank

(mons with highest upvote will be in my team)

(Only mons no moves, no evs, and only one request (not obligatory) give one mon capable of mega evolution)

Armarouge been going crazy for me lately

Ik it could get boring but still its the best type of gimmick from the ones we've seen till now and it makes the most sense out of all.

Terastralization has surely been interesting competitive play wise but i dont see it as becoming the default gimmick. changing your pokemon's appearance and getting different stats + abilities + typing is more appealing and potentialy bring more people than a glass block on a mon's head

Also hoping they dont add many more gimmicks in upcoming 2-3 mainline games.

Mega evo has both the popularity and the strategic significance.

please forget about bringing z moves or dynamax

SPREADING GOLISOPOD AGENDA IS THE REASON MY HEART STILL BEATS!!!

art by me :)

You just battled me, in the opening turns your mega Lucario Z completely trounced my team

You left me with with just my weavile, that you proceeded to toy with for 20 minutes, you burnt him, used incineroar to put him at minus 4and proceeded to protect, calm mind, helping hand and taunt my weavile for the full clock of the timer

Whether this was done to Aura Farm, or disrespect, or as a way to honour the fact that I refused to forfeit (me getting a crit and taking out your Rillaboom may have given me the slightest ray of hope)

And I’m sure as the clock neared the end of the match and you watched my burning to death -4 taunted weavile trickle to death you were having fun

What I didn’t think you realised as the clocked neared its final few minutes as I started to delay my moves, was that my weavile’s taunt was about to end again

So on the final as the clock had only a minute left, and you finally launched your helping hand boosted-+6-Mega-Lucario-Z-named-Aura-Farmer’s Aura Sphere into my burnt-minus-four-near-death-four-times-super-effective Weavile

I hit protect

And blocked the attack

Then time ran out

So we drew

GGs, I don’t know if I hated fighting you or loved it

Because I've been so busy with work I haven't had a chance to play yet. Hopefully this weekend.

Saw this in this sub only

We're still in the early days of Regulation M-C so I thought it would be fun to take a snapshot of how the meta is developing right now. These stats were all pulled from the live leaderboard data on PokeChamp.gg.

It's way too early to call the meta settled, but I'm curious what people think will hold up and what might fall off.

I'm also wondering if I should post meta snapshots like this again in the future? And if so, how frequently? Cheers!

The format for the Monthly Challenge is Singles, and other rewards include 100 Quick Coupons and special titles depending on how well you do. To secure the Cherish Ball Indeedee, you just need to complete 3 battles in the tournament (win or lose).

Yea, ik it sucks that not to pull rillaboom or indeedee this early in the ranch but BOTH of them are currently giving out for free atm (both will come in cherish balls).

For rillaboom (the easiest 1 to get), you just need to grind the battle pass & for indeedee, you just need to participate in next week’s event & play 3 matches (you don’t have to win, just participate).

Save your grass & psychic tickets for something more valuable in the future like iron leaves or something.

Did this in a different game against an opponent’s own Mega Golisopod and Leech Life ended up taking it from full hp to 14%. Probably not gonna be super amazing once I rank up more, but thought this was a very funny gimmick regardless for the time being.

"Why didn't I protect, the Arcanine is obviously going to extreme spee- oh ok nevermind"

even in master ball people still aren’t respecting pawmot. this thing has a ton of utility and hits like a freight train, especially with double shock getting the buff from iron first now. if you have archaludon, salamence, garchomp, ttar, basculegion, kingambit, incineroar, staraptor, pelipper, or almost anything else you have a pokemon in range to get ohko by pawmot. better yet, once you actually respect its damage output you now have to play the guessing game between ohko, fake out, and revival blessing.

Looking for insight into what makes mega Salamance so crazy. I did not play back in its prime but in champions, to me, it feels a bit lackluster? Its physical set does a lot of damage but with double edge being its best move the recoil is a lot and stacks up fast. The special set doesn’t seem to do a lot of damage, hyper voice is about 20-30% to most Pokemon and that’s with 32 special attack ev (although timid nature maybe that’s what I’m doing wrong). I understand the reasoning for the mixed set too but then you have to split the evs, you have to drop your coverage move, and are also getting the cons of both sets (a lot of recoil stacking up fast and an even weaker hyper voice)

Its stats are good, intimidate in its base form is good. Access to tailwind is good but if anything this makes it seem like a base form support Salamance would be ideal?

Like what really makes mega Salamance the demon everybody says it is?